FPGA Engineer (Junior-Senior) for High-Reliability Defense

Morgan McKinley; Southampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan McKinley is seeking FPGA Engineers across all experience levels to join a defence-focused electronics team in Hampshire. You will tackle high-reliability signal processing, high-speed interfaces, and robust hardware design in a secure environment, with opportunities from junior through senior leadership.

The role involves designing, verifying, and optimizing FPGA solutions using VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog, collaborating across hardware, software and RF disciplines, and contributing to

Qualifications

• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science, Embedded Systems, or related field.
• Strong RTL knowledge in VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog.
• Experience with major FPGA toolchains (Vivado/Quartus/etc.).
• Exposure to PCIe, AXI, Ethernet, SPI, I2C, or DDR controllers.
• Experience with simulation and verification methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and verify FPGA-based solutions across lifecycle.
• Conduct synthesis, placement, timing closure for high-density devices.
• Build testbenches and automated verification environments.
• Hardware bring-up, lab integration, signal integrity debugging.
• Collaborate with Hardware, Embedded Software, Systems, RF teams.
• (Senior Levels): lead architecture, code reviews, and mentorship.

Skills

RTL Development

FPGA Toolchains

Protocols & Interfaces

Verification

Education

Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering or related

Tools

Vivado

Quartus

Vivado System Verilog

Job description

Morgan McKinley is seeking FPGA Engineers across all experience levels to join a defence-focused electronics team in Hampshire. You will tackle high-reliability signal processing, high-speed interfaces, and robust hardware design in a secure environment, with opportunities from junior through senior leadership.

The role involves designing, verifying, and optimizing FPGA solutions using VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog, collaborating across hardware, software and RF disciplines, and contributing to